Remembering Douglas North, Mal Whitfield, Warren Mitchell, Saeed Jaffrey

Douglas North was the co-winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Economics, along with Robert Fogel for his work in economic history and the importance of institutions. In his work, he emphasized that economics was more than markets, and he analyzed why some countries developed economically more quickly than others. Mal Whitfield was one of the great postwar middle distance runners. In 1954, he became the first African-American winner of the Sullivan Award. Warren Mitchell was the British actor who created the role of Alf Garnett in the long-running television sitcom Till Death Us Do Part. It is the show Norman Lear based All In The Family on, and Mitchell’s Alf Garnett was the inspiration for Carroll O’Connor’s Archie Bunker. Saeed Jaffrey was the outstanding Indian actor who is best known in the United States for his role as Billy fish opposite Michael Caine and Sean Connery in John Huston’s masterpiece, “The Man Who Would Be King” (1975).